Common Sense Family Doctor

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

Family physicians are being squeezed by two accelerating trends: (1) too few of us to care for the growing US population and (2) the rising number of tasks that we are asked to accomplish for each patient. Since 2020, the starting ages for breast, lung, and colorectal cancer screening were lowered to 40, 50, and 45 years, respectively.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Our loves, our triumphs, our failures, our work, our families. . Eric’s blog post on Dignity Therapy from 2011. So I think as palliative care clinicians, we use narrative as we try to understand more about the persons that we’re caring for and their families. It’s since spread to over 70 VAs. SPONSOR: . Heather: Sure.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 31, 2023

He studies the mental health system in the ways in which it has failed children and adolescents, and he writes about his experience with cancer in a blog, the Billgardner.substack.com, Billgardner, one word. ” Somebody in the comments on their blog response said, “Did you check the date? Bill: Thank you. Brad: Thank you.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Alex: Today we are delighted to welcome Heather Coats, who’s a palliative care nurse practitioner and scientist and Director of Research at the Hospice and Palliative Nurses Association, or HPNA, an Assistant Professor at the University of Colorado and Schutz College of Nursing. This is Eric Widera. Heather: Sure.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 11, 2024

What happened is that firstly, in terms of my clinical background, my background is psycho-oncology, so that’s working with patients with cancer and their families, including when they’re going through periods. So being well and also potentially periods of dying. But that was separate from MAID. And like 99.8%

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Pamela Wible MD

JUNE 19, 2025

Born into a family of physicians who warned her not to pursue medicine. Fed up with assembly-line medicine Dr. Wible held town hall meetings and she invited citizens in her community to design their own ideal clinic. Open since 2005 her community clinic has inspired Americans to create ideal hospitals and clinics nationwide.

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